With the date for the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) round the corner, most state universities are agreeing to accept CMAT scores. However, private institutes such as Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur and Symbiosis International University, who conduct their own MBA entrance tests, have been firm on not accepting CMAT scores for 2012. Universities […]

Soumyajit Sanyal, a software engineer working with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Kolkata, is one of the proud nine 100 percentilers cracking the Common Admission Test (CAT) this year. A graduate from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Soumyajit goes on a free-wheeling chat with PaGaLGuY about getting closer to realising his dream of soon becoming an Indian Institute […]

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has postponed the final registration date for the Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) from January 9 to January 22, 2012. The decision to postpone the date was taken as some state universities including that of Maharashtra, Kerala and Rajasthan scrapped their own management admission tests and agreed […]

In a letter sent to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the Department of Technical Education, Rajasthan Government has stated that it will consider only Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores from next year. The Rajasthan Management Aptitude Test (RMAT), the management test conducted by RTU will be scrapped with immediate effect. The […]

Photo: Niyam Bhushan Only last week, we had reported that the Maharashtra management Common Entrance Test (Mah-CET) 2012 had been postponed by two weeks to March 11, 2012 to make way for the dates booked by the All Indian Council of Technical Education (AICTE) for its Common Management Admission Test (CMAT). Not only has Mah-CET […]

With the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) booking out dates between February 20 and 28, 2012 for its Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), the Maharashtra state government has decided to push their management entrance examination Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (Mah-CET) to March 11, 2012. Confirming this, an official from the Directorate of Technical […]

The first trial test for the much awaited Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) was conducted in the second week of December. A handful of candidates took the exam and now preparations are on to conduct the second trial test. According to sources at the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), after the first trial […]

SS Mantha, Chairman, AICTE As the day for the ‘controversial’ Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2012 nears, PaGalGuY.com met up with the man behind it all, SS Mantha, Chairman of the All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Brimming with optimism, he said that CMAT was an enabling provision for aspirants and parents, which would […]

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will publish a list of b-schools accepting Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores only once the registration closes for the exam on January 9, 2012. Confirming this an AICTE official said: “We will present the list of colleges accepting CMAT scores on or a couple of days […]

CMAT 2012 advertisement by AICTE that appeared on December 3, 2011 While b-schools and MBA aspirants have a lot to complain over All India Council for Technical Education’s (AICTE) Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), a senior AICTE official told PaGaLGuY that the exam is not compulsory for its affiliated b-schools. This comes as a breather, […]